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- Family Limited Partnership
- A type of partnership comprising only related family members, usually created by parents in order to pass on a family business or investments to their childern. It provides significant federal gift and estate tax benefits because members of a family limited partnership (sometimes referred to as a FLP--pronounced "flip") own shares in the partnership which can be transferred between generations at lower tax rates.
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